tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003998945645458544.post7449109524468251439..comments2024-03-28T14:32:59.573-07:00Comments on Aangirfan: MYSTERIOUS GEORGE ORWELL Anonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16577270335071593954noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003998945645458544.post-67342790790797680192020-03-16T15:44:38.053-07:002020-03-16T15:44:38.053-07:00The following is a quote from Aldous Huxley's ...The following is a quote from Aldous Huxley's (<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Here is a quote from Aldous Huxley in a letter to George Orwell concerning 1984. Huxley taught French to Orwell at Eton. "Agreeing with all that the writers have written about it, I need not tell you yet once more, how fine and how important the book is. May I speak instead of the thing with which the book deals- the ultimate revolution- the revolution which lies beyond politics and economics, and which aims at the total subversion of the individual's psychology and physiology- are to be found in the Marquis de Sade, who regarded himself as the continuator, of Robespierre and Babeuf. The philosophy of the ruling minority in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it." Yeah, it doesn't surprise me that ol' George just needed to have sex with young Arab girls, with his wife's permission, of course.<br /><br /><br />Christopher J. McKinleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003998945645458544.post-46126393174416634262020-02-28T00:44:52.902-08:002020-02-28T00:44:52.902-08:00orwell worked for M15 and saw the secret new world...orwell worked for M15 and saw the secret new world order plans and set about publishing them as a novel (1984) hoping to stop it by informing people of what was coming...had he come out he would be dead immediately and the details with him, looks like they got him anyway, but too late to stop the leak...the masonsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003998945645458544.post-75343380599394771422020-02-24T23:47:20.837-08:002020-02-24T23:47:20.837-08:00 "Wait. Turn around and don't look until...<em> "Wait. Turn around and don't look until I tell you."</em><br />---<br /><br /><a href="https://unbound.com/books/eileen/updates/end-of-the-century-1984-a-poem-by-eileen" rel="nofollow">Of course his wife was an influence. You can't be so close to someone without them being an influence.</a> And she appears even reflected in his work.<br /><br />Writers project themselves and people they know into their works. You can see Julia and Winston as Eileen and Eric (or George or his other pseudonyms).<br /><br />1984 was of course a parody of 1948. Or rather a natural extrapolation of the horrors Blair saw in 1948 and how ordinary people dealt with them. An extrapolation to a hell of absolute evil ruled by monsters whose only god was absolute power<a title="Yes, monsters like Victor Rothschild and the plutocrats of Manhattan and autocrats of Eurasia. And how did the best of ordinary people deal with them? Opposition to tyrants is obedience to God." rel="nofollow">.</a><br /><br /><a title="If anything, Orwell is underrated --- He also foreshadowed AI and ML in this novel, long before general knowledge of Alan Turing's wartime work." rel="nofollow">---</a><br /><em>"Listen to that. How can she make a song written by a machine sound so beautiful?"</em><br /><a title="Incidentally, one of the first programming languages I used was called Orwell, created in 1984. More or less a free version of David Turner's Miranda, itself reified combinatory logic, and both descendants of Peter Landin's elegant ISWIM." rel="nofollow">---</a><br /><br />I always saw Winston Smith as an heroic figure of the greatest order. Just an ordinary and very flawed man, weak and imperfect. But with a spark of something transcendent. Who rebelled in a world of total evil, risked death and worse, for one simple reason: love of beauty for its own sake. Beauty of justice, truth, love. Who had no hope to win, nor that his soul would be saved from this torment. Who fought only because it was the right thing to do, no matter that it was hopeless.<br /><br />Like a damned soul fighting off demons to save the only flower, by some miracle, blossoming in the dark wastelands of hell.<br /><br />---<br /> "You can turn 'round now."<br /> "Winston, do you like me?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003998945645458544.post-49801001440985855792020-02-22T09:12:21.173-08:002020-02-22T09:12:21.173-08:00Does it really matter? Define "strange" ...Does it really matter? Define "strange" btw!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003998945645458544.post-88226927897172181592020-02-22T06:24:35.343-08:002020-02-22T06:24:35.343-08:00Strange fellow....for sure.Strange fellow....for sure.wigginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672672649406237229noreply@blogger.com